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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

W. Somerset Maugham

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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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Bad Enough Future Know Past
Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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Distinction Mark Naturalness Simplicity Truest
The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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Ineftable Mystic Psychopathology See Unspeakable
As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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Defect Friend Know Merit Rather
Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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Future Life Live Over Present Worry Worth
They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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Celebration Drink Envious House Idea Malicious Manner Predicament Six Social Unable
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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Brief Contemptuously Heard Money People Speak Wonder Wonderful
As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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Country Life Place
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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Anything Ask Delight Foolish Last More Nothing Permanent World
There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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Always Himself Let Love Loved One
The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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Before Care Cesare Death Long Love Other Separation Think Tragedy
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Belief Common Contrary Excercise Grow Imagination Mature More Powerful Young
One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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Convent Find One Only Peace Pleasure Soul World
You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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Alley Blind Down Lead Lot One Time Waste You
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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Apple Country Hollywood Long Make Occasionally One Peach Women

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